pVoice is an application that was designed for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Disabled people who cannot speak and have very little possiblities to operate a computer can use pVoice by selecting photo's or symbols to generate speech output.

Starting from pVoice 2.2 (and thus the most recent beta version) you can extend pVoice's functionality by installing Plugins. pVoice supports two types of plugins. The first type is a 'Theme plugin', which acts like a theme in pVoice, but provides its own functionality. The second type is an 'Actionbar plugin', which installs itself into the actionbar (the bar at the bottom of the screen where you can also find the 'Talk' and 'Backspace' buttons), and therefore can execute a specific task.

NOTE:
· pVoice 2.1 is available in English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese (the free Text To Speech 'engine' is not available for all of these languages

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New 'roundcornered' look and feel
· More input possibilities (single swich operation, keyboard and touchscreen combined with the input possibilities of pVoice 2.1, namely mousebuttons and the headsupport of the Adremo powered wheelchair)
· Possibility to load different datafiles (vocabularies)
· Numerous improvements in the 'editmode', amongst which remembering the settings of previously created themes
· Buttons can now contain text-only (images are optional)
· You no longer need to have Administrator rights on Windows XP/NT/2000 to use pVoice
· Support for Microsoft SAPI4 en SAPI5 speech synthesizers (the Microsoft Agent is now optional)
· Support for a lot more image fileformats, amongst which (transparent) PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, WMF, EMF, PCX, TGA, BMP, ICO and SVG
· Support for plugins